Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Ottawa 1949

Ottawa the great Capital of the Dominion of Canada, this 1949 film made by the National Film Board shows the city as it was then. Not a pretty sight. The Greber Plan has been implemented, but much remains to be done. One thing that has not changed is the traffic jams in the centre at rush hour. It has only gotten worse now that the City has a population of 1.5 million.

Funny also to see people diving into Hog's Back Falls back then, now it is forbidden due to too many deaths, a very dangerous place. Cycling on the driveway nowadays is un-heard of again far too dangerous with all the crazed motorists going 100Km per hour. Ottawa is a nice place and improving but it is not as quaint as it once was. The messenger boys are gone too, with all the cut backs and decentralization in government there are a lot less people working in the bureaucracy.